Sixth Circuit· 11/15/2004

Sead Pilica v. John Ashcroft

Citations

388 F.3d 941
2004 U.S. App. LEXIS 23818
2004 WL 2579242

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holding that “even at its most favorable, [the applicant’s] live testimony did not measure up to the claims made in [the] asylum requests”
holding that the IJ “did not err in using [the applicant]’s failure to provide corroborating evidence as further support for the negative credibility finding”
holding that an Albanian citizen who was jailed after participating in two demonstrations and suffered head injuries following a third demonstration did not demonstrate that he had been persecuted
explaining that an “IJ’s adverse credibility findings ... ‘are conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary’ ”
explaining that an “IJ’s adverse credibility findings . . . ‘are conclusive unless any reasonable adjudicator would be compelled to conclude to the contrary’”
noting that “all of the occurrences that arguably constitute past persecution resulted directly from Pilica’s attendance at a demonstration rather than from the government having sought him out”

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Judges: Moore, Cole, Marbley

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